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Digital product delivery at the NCB Financial Group is being pursued at hyper-speed, by the company’s own estimation, with new cross-functional teams at work in a specialist information technology unit, called the Agile Lab. At the helm within the ever changing working space at the lab – which is configured for comfort, replete with couches, …

PROVIDENCE, Guyana, (CMC): A maiden first-class hundred from Keemo Paul and a couple of early wickets put reigning champions Guyana Jaguars firmly on course for a seventh straight victory over Jamaica Scorpions in the Regional 4-Day Championship yesterday. Paul, a member of the 2016 West Indies Under-19 side that won the ICC Youth World Cup, …

There are plans to spread the sport of chess all over Jamaica. According to Jamaica Chess Federation president Ian Wilkinson, work is under way to engender growth through an increasing number of parish chess associations. In addition, he hopes to have champion chess players visiting locations all over the island. “We hope to have chess …

Antoinette Williams, the Kingston mother whose unborn child’s life was possibly saved by an intrauterine blood transfusion at Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) in July, has lauded medical personnel at the maternity hospital for the work they did during the 30th week of her pregnancy. The married mother of five – four boys, and now a …

With the promise of more employment opportunities as the country’s economy grows, Grants Pen resident Rowena Grace is calling on the Government to do more to help persons who have left the secondary system but want to further their education. At a Gleaner On the Corner Forum with the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) in …

Last week, Anthony ‘Bugussu’ Powell, a 56-year-old higgler, was smiling broadly as he peddled his goods on the streets of downtown Kingston, but his customers could never know the injustice he suffered for the last seven years. Powell spent four of the seven years behind bars accused of murders and lost everything he possessed. However, …

“I was in ‘Lala Land’ during the first six months of this case, and although justice prevailed, I am bitter and it still hurts badly,” declared businessman Elia ‘Leo’ Taddeo, after he was cleared of sexual touching of two females in St Catherine Circuit Court last Tuesday. Taddeo, a Canadian real-estate developer, said that he …

Keith Duncan, chairman of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC), has urged residents of the North East St Andrew community of Grants Pen to make the best use of their educational opportunities the first time around, and prepare for emerging jobs in the economy. Addressing the latest in the series of The Gleaner’s forum dubbed …

An estimated 20,000 more Jamaicans will become overweight or obese this year alone, with one health expert fearing that the battle to shrink the waistline of Jamaicans will continue to be an uphill task until consumers start demanding healthier options from the food industry. Professor of public health nutrition, Dr Fitzroy Henry, noted that at …

Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton is expecting no further complications with the administering of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to girls in grade seven at secondary schools across this island, now that his ministry and the Ministry of Education have found common ground. There was discord between Tufton and Education Minister Ruel Reid earlier …

With hundreds of Jamaican children continuing to fall victims to violent discipline, sexual abuse, and homicides, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), through the release of its latest global report examining violence in the lives of children and adolescents, hopes to reignite discussions around the ill-treatment being faced across all stages of childhood. The report …

One of the most anticipated legal rulings in Jamaica in recent time is expected to be handed down in the Supreme Court on Friday when Justice Viviene Harris rules how much the international pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer, should pay to Jamaican entities Lasco Distributors and Medimpex Jamaica Limited. The two local firms are waiting on the …

Six months after the Teachers Services Commission (TSC) ruled that she was unfairly dismissed, Sonia Clarke Lee, the former principal of Spring Gardens All-Age in St Catherine, is demanding the more than $20 million in salary she believes she is owed since being separated from her job in 2008. In March, the TSC ruled that …

It’s is turning into one of the most keenly contested by-elections in Jamaica’s recent history and for some residents of South East St Mary, tomorrow cannot come soon enough. “The tension a rise, in all di years a politics we never see dis. Last night them fire two shot after some youth,” a resident of …